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Managing labour in small firms / edited by Susan Marlow, Dean Patton and Monder Ram.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in small business ; 9.
- Routledge studies in small business ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Small business--Great Britain--Management.
- Small business.
- Personnel management--Great Britain.
- Personnel management.
- Industrial relations--Great Britain.
- Industrial relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Other Title:
- Managing labor in small firms
- Place of Publication:
- 2004.
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The majority of employees currently working in the private sector are now employed in small firms, yet little is known about their working conditions. This collection of essays addresses this gap. Based on theoretical analysis supported by contemporary empirical evidence, the book explores key areas of the employment relationship adding a new perspective to our understanding of contemporary work.
- Contents:
- Cover; Managing Labour in Small Firms; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 The hunting of the snark: A critical analysis of human resource management discourses in relation to managing labour in smaller organisations; 3 Researching the employment relationship in small firms: What are the contributions from the employment relations and small business literatures?; 4 Managerial strategies in small firms; 5 Training in smaller firms; 6 Breaking out of survival businesses: Managing labour, growth and development in the South Asian restaurant trade
- 7 Labour regulation and SMEs: A challenge to competitiveness and employability?8 Small firms and the National Minimum Wage; 9 Managing variable pay systems in smaller workplaces: The significance of employee perceptions of organisational justice; 10 Representation, consultation and the smaller firm; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781134381463
- 1134381468
- 9781134381470
- 1134381476
- 9781280178412
- 1280178418
- 9780203495612
- 0203495616
- OCLC:
- 475909961
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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